New InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series oscilloscopes from Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies has expanded its mixed signal and digital storage oscilloscope portfolio with 26 new models that incorporate breakthrough technology that allows advanced capabilities to be included in affordable instruments.

These new oscilloscopes comprise Agilent Technologies' next-generation InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series oscilloscopes that are set to revolutionsie the field of engineering education.

The new Agilent InfiniiVision 2000 X- Series oscilloscope offers bandwidths from 70 MHz to 200 MHz and boasts an extremely fast waveform update for superior viewing of signal detail and capture of infrequent events.

Electronic design and test teams in a range of industries continue to produce increasingly sophisticated hardware. Engineers and technicians use oscilloscopes as their primary tools to test and debug those designs. Additionally, educators need affordable, industry-grade oscilloscopes to help prepare the next generation of engineers for success.

Ph.D. Co-Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute of Drexel University, Adam Fontecchio, is confident that new Agilent InfiniiVision X-Series oscilloscopes will revolutionise the field of engineering education.

"The ability to upgrade hardware capabilities after purchase through software add-ons opens new possibilities for continually updating course content to adapt to the changing needs of global engineering markets and to keep our engineering students on the cutting edge of instrumentation and practical skills," says Fontecchio.

At the heart of the InfiniiVision X-Series oscilloscopes is an Agilent-designed custom 90-nm CMOS ASIC with 6M gates and embedded memory. This MegaZoom IV single-chip architecture enables fast waveform update rates and responsive deep memory, along with an integrated logic analyser, function generator, and protocol analyser functionality so engineers and educators have highly advanced scope performance at economical prices.

"With the InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series, we focused on delivering industry-leading signal viewing capabilities, and we added options for an integrated function generator and brought our MSO technology into the economy scope segment for the first time," says Jay Alexander, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's oscilloscopes business.

Agilent InfiniiVision X-Series oscilloscopes offer a range of benefits for engineers and technicians, such as:

extremely fast update rates of up to 1,000,000 waveforms per second, which with MegaZoom IV technology minimises blind time and maintains responsiveness with deep memory enabled 8.5-inch WVGA display, which offers twice the viewing area

lightweight (4lb) with a small footprint (15" x 6") for easy portability and to conserve bench space

hardware-accelerated mask testing to quickly perform pass/fail analysis using known good waveforms

hardware-accelerated serial decode and trigger for I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN, I2S, RS-232 and other UARTs (available only on the InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series).

The addition of the value-based InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series oscilloscopes to the Agilent portfolio, which also includes the industry-leading Infiniium line of performance scopes with true analog bandwidth up to 32 GHz, demonstrates the company's sustained commitment to growing their business.

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